Comedy star Jim Davidson has opened up about his cocaine habit and how he spent eight weeks in rehab to get off it back in 1993.

The 72-year-old has never shied away from discussing his wild past, having claimed that he spent much of the early 90s taking drugs with the late Queen singer Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett. He also revealed that he used to be a “drug mule” for his friends, carrying around much of their stash. Speaking on James O'Brien's ITV debate show, he said: "I used to take tonnes of drugs. My mates used to send me down to Erith to pick up all the pills and things and come back to Woolwich.”

He went on: "I didn't go far, it's not like I went to Peru or somewhere, but I was the bloke from the pub that used to go and get them all. I took their money and went to buy it off a bloke with a nose like that [mimes a broken nose], came back and gave it to my mates.”

Discussing his addiction in 2015, the funnyman famously told The Sun that he was so addicted to cocaine at one point that he wanted to have extra nostrils hem “surgically added” so he could take more of the addictive drug. He shared: “At one showbiz party I was sat at a table with my nose bleeding, looking like I was about to keel over and die, and I remember wondering why Miss World, who was a guest at the do, didn’t want to talk to me.”

Discussing his addiction in a new interview with the Telegraph, Jim explained that he began taking cocaine because he was drinking so much alcohol. He said, “That didn’t really agree with me. Colombia could not produce enough. Come on, lads, work on weekends, Jim needs his nose full.”

Following Jim’s stint in rehab, the grandfather of five hasn’t touched drugs again, although he admits that he still drinks “a bit too much”. Speaking about needing to get off cocaine, he said: “Luckily with me, the 'come down' from drugs outweighed the high they provided, so it was a simple step for me to get help and stop, which I did, and to this day have never touched another drug. And hopefully, one day at a time, I will continue to abstain."

Earlier this year, Jim revealed to the Express that he had written to the head of GB News to enquire if the channel was for sale as his own TV station UStreme has now become a fully fledged TV service running both original programmes and classic shows and comedy sketches that can't be found anywhere else.